Firstdraft Solo Exhibition, Surry Hills. February 2011
Untitled Pair
2011, Video Installation, Mixed Media, 2 x single channel video 1 and 2 minute loops
Exhibition Blurb:
Exhibition Blurb:
Catherine Connolly’s recent video installation
work examines representation in and the language of cinema, and the ways in
which this enforces, subverts or complicates ideas of gender, performativity
and space. Cinematic language encompasses many prevalent concerns in her
practice: the body, desire, the uncanny, spatial interaction as well as the
nature of narrative and its rupture. Her practice also explores both real and
represented spaces, and the way that a body, particularly the gendered body,
moves and relates to them both on screen and in the world.
For this exhibition she extends on previous
filmic investigations by taking from cinematic language and utilising it in
both real and represented space, drawing on a familiarity with the cinematic relationship between space,
the body, horror and the uncanny.
For full exhibition essays by Rebecca Adams and Stephanie Van Schilt please see exhibition texts
